Inchture and Rossie parish records
Lookup searches – Access records in Scottish archives for ancestors in this parish (e.g. Kirk Session Records). Available from £1 a name a year.
Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.
Birth records with no father’s name – Hit a brick wall with no father named in a birth record? Help is at hand: see our list for this parish below.
Male Heads of Families – Free transcripts of rolls of male heads of families from the 1830s
Kirk Sessions Index – Free extracts from Kirk Session records
Lookups
The records of the Kirk Session contain a variety of documents which detail many aspects of the daily lives of all types of people throughout Scotland from the 16th century onwards. We are pleased to be able to offer a search service in some of the records available for this parish. We will search for a given name in any of the record sets in the table below, and provide you with transcripts of any matching entries for just £1 per name per year.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/417/1 | Minutes | 1836-1861 | Request lookup |
| CH2/417/2 | Cash books Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls | 1797-1852 | Request lookup |
| CH2/417/3 | Cash books | 1852-1885 | Request lookup |
| CH2/417/4 | Minutes | 1861-1940 | Request lookup |
Board of Supervision poor relief appeals
The Board of Supervision was established under the 1845 Poor Law Act. One of its tasks was to hear appeals by paupers against inadequate poor relief granted by Parochial Boards. These appeals were recorded in the Board of Supervision minutes. Cases were often heard over an extended period. The minutes may contain a variety of information, including about other family members, medical conditions and other circumstances. For more information about these records, see here.
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
- £3 for a single minute
- £6 for up to 3 minutes for a single case
- £10 for any single case with more than 3 minutes (some cases have as many as 8 minutes)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Elspet SLIDERS or CAMERON | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabella STORMONT | 1850 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Susan STORMONT | 1850 (2) | Order images | Refused |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
Your research hit a brick wall when you discovered a birth record missing this vital name? Choose Find the Father by any birth below to start breaking down that barrier today with our FREE search service. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| William ANDERSON | 29 November 1867 | Catherine ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Annie Bell BLACKIE | 26 July 1873 | Isabella BLACKIE | Find the father |
| William Constable Nicol CAMERON | 17 December 1855 | Ellison CAMERON | Find the father |
| Alexander Robert Doctor CRAIG | 8 December 1864 | Agnes CRAIG | Find the father |
| Jane DUFF | 28 September 1860 | Jane DUFF | Find the father |
| Clementina Smith HUTCHISON | 13 April 1872 | Barbara HUTCHISON | Find the father |
| Helen ISDALE | 6 February 1866 | Helen ISDALE | Find the father |
| Catherine Bell MATTHEW | 5 October 1864 | Mary MATTHEW | Find the father |
| James MATTHEW | 17 June 1872 | Mary MATTHEW | Find the father |
| Margaret Roger MATTHEW | 22 October 1859 | Isabella MATTHEW | Find the father |
| William MATTHEW | 8 July 1868 | Mary MATTHEW | Find the father |
| Isabella MCARA | 6 November 1874 | Isabella MCARA | Find the father |
| Mary MCARA | 6 November 1874 | Isabella MCARA | Find the father |
| Peter MITCHELL | 28 January 1863 | Ann MITCHELL | Find the father |
| John NICOLL | 15 July 1862 | Jessie NICOLL | Find the father |
| Margaret Morrison NICOLL | 24 January 1857 | Jessie NICOLL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Lumsden Law PALMER | 12 December 1856 | Joanna PALMER | Find the father |
| Margaret PEATTIE | 25 June 1873 | Jessie PEATTIE | Find the father |
| John REID | 22 December 1859 | Isabella REID | Find the father |
| Robert Stevenson RENNIE | 20 November 1865 | Hannah RENNIE | Find the father |
| Euphemia Smith ROBB | 6 June 1859 | Ann ROBB | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Bowman ROSE | 26 November 1862 | Ann ROSE | Find the father |
| Alexander THOMSON | 31 August 1861 | Helen THOMSON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Slater THOMSON | 3 October 1863 | Helen THOMSON | Find the father |
| Fanny THOMSON | 22 August 1874 | Eliza THOMSON | Find the father |
| Mary WATSON | 14 May 1874 | Jessie WATSON | Find the father |
Rolls of Male Heads of Families
In 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland passed the Veto Act, removing the absolute right of landowners to appoint ministers to their parish. The Act gave male heads of families who were communicants with the parish the right to veto the appointment of a new minister if a majority of them objected. To this end, the Assembly instructed kirk sessions to draw up rolls of the male heads of families in each parish. We have transcribed the surviving rolls, and are publishing them here. They are significant as they pre-date the earliest nominal census, which took place in 1841.
In 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland passed the Veto Act, removing the absolute right of landowners to appoint ministers to their parish. The Act gave male heads of families who were communicants with the parish the right to veto the appointment of a new minister if a majority of them objected. To this end, the Assembly instructed kirk sessions to draw up rolls of the male heads of families in each parish. We have transcribed the surviving rolls, and are publishing them here. They are significant as they pre-date the earliest nominal census, which took place in 1841.
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
